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Posted by Mannieb TRAEDONYA is an exception. Though she calls herself "The Bride of New Funk Hip Opera," I would crown her, with 'nuff respect to Aretha Franklin, the "Princess of Soul." She earns this title because she uses the lost arts of singing: restraint and a sense of melody. The chops are there, make no mistake, but they are used with purpose and a whole lotta soul, as evidenced by her maxi-single, "Beloved." She is an accomplished songwriter who wrote all the songs for this release, Elemental Change. According to TRAEDONYA and her manager and collaborator, A.K. Smith-Ford, it's been, and continues to be a long, strange trip! Read an interview with Traedonya by Mark Kirby
on 10/1/2006, 2:22 pm
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Every new singer with a loud voice is being hailed as the "New Queen of R&B" or a "Hip Hop Diva." All this usually means (besides having a hype machine behind her) is that said artist has some vocal chops and the willingness to use them ad nauseam. Some of the best voices of the last ten years -from Whitney Houston to Mariah Carey and Mary J. Blige - have taken what a real soul singer would use as the peak moment of a song and made it a starting point. Worse yet, they've made it a style unto itself, replacing tunes with vocal gymnastics that butcher songs. Think American Idol.
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